NASA's Europa Clipper will fly past Mars today to adjust its trajectory and position itself for a critical phase of its ...

Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's fourth-largest moon ...

The first major event of Europa Clipper's journey to Jupiter takes place this weekend as a gravity assist maneuver around the Red Planet.

Because they all orbit in the ecliptic plane ... from the rocky planets to the moons around our gas and ice giants. Europa is one of the closest moons of the gas giant Jupiter.

With future space missions planned to various moons such as Europa and Ganymede ... causes it to slowly progress toward a circular orbit. At the rate its orbit is changing, Titan should have ...

So, with everything on track, mission controllers commanded Europa Clipper to approach Mars' orbit in November of last year, followed by two additional maneuvers in January and February that set ...